OCZ Agility 3 causing system lockups - why?

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It seems my 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD is causing my system to lockup whenever it is used. It is not currently my OS drive, in fact it is actually empty after being reformatted. Opening the drive, making new folders or generally interacting with it seems to have a very high chance of causing explorer to lock up. Given a little longer it will also often lock up the whole PC meaning I have to hit the reset button. It can also cause windows to fail to boot, endlessly staying on the windows loading logo. Every time this happens I find that the drive is not being detected by the UEFI.

What could be causing this? I wouldn't have thought it would interfere in this way it not being the OS drive and currently being totally blank, especially when booting. Nothing is even pointing at anything that used to be on the drive. I have checked and the cable isn't loose or anything. Could it be a problem with the cable itself, the drive, the sata port, the SATA or SSD controller? I really don't know where to start.
 
Currently have an 840 Pro as the OS drive, two 1TB drive for Programs & Data (not in RAID) & the Agility 3 which is empty (and right now unplugged). Drives in AHCI mode.

Interestingly if I plug in the data cable for the Agility 3 intel RST lists it as having a SATA transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s even though it is in a SATA 3 port.


2500k / Asrock z68Extreme4, 8GB Corsair XMS3, Corsair HX850, GTX 670, Xonar Phoebus Solo sound card, Win 8.1
 
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I am iirc but I will go check now.

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Updated the drive from 2.15 to 2.25 & ran a chkdsk so I will see if that makes any difference.

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The drive was working fine while in the OS for a while & I managed to move some apps onto it without a problem. However when I restarted the PC hung on windows loading and sure enough it had disappeared from the UEFI again.

I am currently running BIOS L2.21A from http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=Download&os=Beta&Model=Z68 Extreme4. There is a L2.23 but it has an earlier date on it. I didn't realise this before but it seems that the Win8 downloads just direct to the Beta downloads so I am running a beta BIOS which may be the cause. I am sure they will have dropped development for this board by now so I will try the latest (and only) non-beta BIOS (2.20 from http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=Download&os=BIOS&Model=Z68 Extreme4) tomorrow.
 
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Well it wasn't the BIOS - RST reported the drive disconnecting randomly while I was using the PC and again it disappeared from BIOS.

It should be listed under SATA 3_1
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I'll try it in another computer to see if I have the same problem. The fact that I don't have any way to make it fail other than waiting for it to happen isn't going to make this particularly easy.
 
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It was but I didn't realise that it was the cause of booting problems at the time. I think it may have been a dodgy akasa SATA cable but only time will tell.
 
Agility 3 failure rates are horrendous. My one lasted 3 months before it went back under warranty and swapped to an 840pro.
 
Hasn't caused any problems since changing the cable & RST now reports it as having a transfer rate of 6Gb/s. Though due to the nature of the problem it is possible nothing has changed and it will disconnect again at any moment.
 
i had this problem too after much frustration i threw it into my laptop. No bloody problems for the laptop at all but my pc just would not play nice with it
 
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